The Leading Reference for Buying & Selling Antique Guns
From flintlocks to pepperboxes ... and early cartridge guns too!
You'll Love This If:
- You're a gun collector with an interest in old gun prices
- You want to make sure you're not being sold a fake
- You buy and sell antique guns
No other source brings you over 4,000 meticulously priced firearms from the colonial era to the early 1900s - truly antique and vintage guns. This 9th Edition of Flaydermann's Guide to Antique American Firearms is newly revised with over 1,200 updates, a new chapter on metallic cartridge handguns, plus percussion and dueling pistols. This book is great for antique gun identification, antique gun values, quick reference, firearms history and trends in gun collecting.
You’ll Learn About:
- Antique gun prices for over 4,000+ different firearms
- The history behind the greatest - and most obscure - guns of past centuries
- How to collect, grade and inspect old, antique guns
TIP: Comes with 4 Expert Articles on Gun Grading, Gun Conditions, Gun Restorations and Fakes
What Else is Inside:
- Antique American firearm models with marks and specifications along with 1,800 large scale photographs
- Firearms pricing with information on how to assess values based on demand, rarity and condition
- Histories of the makers with dates and locations of manufacture and quantities made
- A review of the volatile gun collecting market and secrets on what to look for
Chapters Include:
- Collecting Firearms
- Values and Conditions
- Restoration and Fakes; Where the Fine Line is Drawn
- The Arms Library
- Major American Manufacturers
- American Military Single Shot Pistols
- American Percussion Pistols
- American Metallic Cartridge Pistols
- American Military Longarms
- Confederate Firearms
- Kentucky Rifles and Pistols
- Percussion Sporting and Target Rifles, Plains Rifles, Flintlock New England Rifles and Pistols
- Lever Action and Other Repeating Rifles
- Single Shot Breech-Loading Cartridge Rifles
- Revolving Rifles
- American Colonial and Revolutionary War Firearms
- American Shotguns and Fowling Pieces
- Miscellanea
About the Author
Norm Flaydermann is undoubtedly the world's best-known antique arms dealer and authority. In addition to his seminal work,
Flaydermann's Guide to Antique America Firearms, he authored
Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders: Whales and Whalemen and
The Bowie Knife; Unsheathing an American Legend.
What The Experts are Saying
"Indispensable for understanding the gun in America ... scholarly work of the purest water, unriveled in American or European arms literature for depth, scope, thoroughness and literary style all in one." - Robert Held, author of Age of Firearms
"...quite simply the best and most important study of antique American arms ever written." - Man At Arms magazine
"As a definitive work; you shudder at the amount of effort that must have been required to put it together." - Field & Stream magazine
"The bible for the gun collector a must for all students of early American firearms!" - Elmer Keith, Guns Magazine
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